Definition of "bakehouse" in English

noun

1. A building or an apartment used for the preparing and baking of bread and other baked goods.

   • 2004, Andrea Levy, Small Island, London: Review, Prologue, p. 3, Graham helped Father in the shed. He looked after the fire under the copper of pig swill, took the pork pies to the bakehouse when needed and generally ran round doing everything Father asked […]

2. A building principally containing ovens.

3. (UK dialectal) Bakery.